There's foreign talent and there're foreign talons

I had fun going through a reporter's story about the Nature Society doing a "parrot count" just to have an idea of how many of these birds -- which include cockatoos, lorikeets and parakeets -- are flying about in the open in urban Singapore.

It seems that, apart from three local species, quite a few species found here are actually from elsewhere, and are likely to have been pet birds that somehow got free and later began to breed.

In tweaking the story's introduction, I decided to call these non-indigenous parrots that now call Singapore home "foreign talons". Clever and original, huh?

I then decided to Google and found an interesting photography community forum that also had the same idea. The forum thread started with someone posting a beautiful picture of a regal-looking hawk, with the heading "Application for Singapore PR". The online banter led to someone else suggesting the bird was a "foreign talon". Great minds think alike. Here is the link:

http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/threads/159449-Application-for-Singapore-PR

It's been a long day at work for me, so I'll end here today.